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Ten Word Tuesday — God Is In The Details

As it turns out, Bossy has a friend with very strict guidelines in the bathroom, and that friend recently accused Bossy of doing it all wrong:

It seems there are two distinct ways to load the toilet paper roll on its holder. According to Bossy’s friend, one can load the roll so that the toilet paper dangles conveniently from the front:

Or one can load the toilet paper so that spit fire piss balls mother christmas:

Frankly Bossy finds it ridiculous to engage in such a trivial matter! Bossy finds engaging in this matter nearly as ridiculous as poking and grabbing at the toilet paper that’s supposed to be hanging in the front except it never seems to be there:

Bossy can sum up her attitude toward toilet paper in this way: It doesn’t matter! Unless you’re silly enough to front load.

Which is what today’s Ten-Word Challenge is all about. In exactly ten words, can you tell Bossy which toilet paper method you prefer, or about any other pet peeves around the household?

And be sure to check back later today for the best toilet paper advice on the web.

A long source of debate amongst my uncles and my grandfather …..all engineers…..which only means they spent way too much time in this form of library. The answer according to miss manners guide was: plain paper back, pattern paper (do they still make pattern ass tissue? ) front.

I’m with Julie… if it’s not front-loaded I have to forcibly restrain myself from fixing it. Now, back when I had a cat and a baby, we back-loaded to prevent the “slap the roll til it’s empty in a pile on the floor” fun-time activity popular in those demographics.

Seriously, this discussion always confused me. I was like…”what is wrong with me? I don’t care which way the tp is on the roll and everyone else does.” I’m obviously missing the tp gene because there are people who feel very certain that their tp loading way is the best. I’m just glad when it’s there and so happy to see someone else who feel’s the same. 🙂

We do the front load thing, but what really set me back on my heels was that this debate has been raging since OMG when I was in my 20s…some 40 years ago give or take. It was in Ann Landers’ column or Dear Abby and for real this topic has been going on since the sixties.

I’ve been an impartial observer of this argument for over 70 years. My primary observation is this: Only front-loaders are compulsive about “correctness”; I mean,who really should care about such silliness?
The magnificent actress and early independent women’s lib activist,Evelyn Keyes, said that she divorced the brilliant musician,Artie Shaw(who also had married Ava Gardner and other “starlets”) because he would go ballistic if paper was not front-loaded!

Fuck the toilet paper. Go with the flushable baby wipes. It cleans post-partum hemorrhoids right up. Especially reassuring for us anal retentive types. But if you’re a single mom do not seriously date a man who uses baby wipes. Because it’s just creepy.

Wow. I front load, but don’t complain if I see it backloaded and I don’t change someone else’s space if it’s not my way. I have a few questions…#40..there are STUDIES????? Seriously? My other question involves public places, such as a hotel room. Does a maid get fired if she backloads? And do the obsessive front loaders complain at the front desk if it’s done wrong? If a maid gets pissed at her boss, does she backload as a passive/aggressive way of getting even? Does she find satisfaction in doing so? In public restrooms, where it’s just two giant rolls facing each other, are they supposed to be front or backloaded? and can you even tell?

And to those who call me anal, I just want to say there’s only so many things I have control over. Give me this, please. And, it is too fair that everyone open and close the lid and seat. No combs, toothbrushes or cats in my bowl!